The Magick of Aleister Crowley
A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema

I tend to stick pretty close to the bone in my occult readings. There's been a lot of shit written over the last 20 years by people who have no business either writing books or professing expertise in occult matters. DuQuette is a respected author of the Western Ceremonial/Crowlean magick traditions......more

1 of my top 10 recommended books to people new to learning practical Hermeticism. Although, I would place this further in the back of the list. This book fucking rocks(as do all of Lon's books)! It explains a lot of difficult/abstract Thelemic concepts, that is very helpful to people who don't live......more

DuQuette does a good job of presenting and translating the rituals and meaning of them from Crowley's work, one of the better interpretations I've seen.......more

My impression is this book fits squarely in the Piscean age. Much of it was like being in church—having many prayer-like rituals and odd stories without much explanation or a clear enough introduction for them. Maybe it assumed prior familiarity. Reading Wikipedia was more helpful for some basic his......more

I bought this when it first came out and at the time I thought it was the best book written on the subject after "Magick In Theory And Practice". Due to the low quality of the publisher, the pages fell apart. Years later, upon reading "The Magick Of Aleister Crowley", the revised edition of this bo......more